Example sentences of "be that [pron] [vb base] on " in BNC.

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1 If we now ask how we are able to get any grasp of the explanatory role of class strategy in Poulantzas ' theory , the answer is that we rely on our everyday , voluntarist understanding of it .
2 Where many dieters fall down is that they concentrate on cutting down on food , cutting out pleasure from their lives .
3 The trouble with our research and development programmes in information technology ( IT ) today is that they concentrate on technology push .
4 My plea to the Government , therefore , is that they concentrate on what they can do , and that is to improve the long-term prospects for the economy .
5 What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes .
6 Yet one of the striking characteristics of Shakespeare 's Sonnets is that they exist on an almost universal level ; they are generalized ( with none of the depersonalization that usually goes with generalization ) ; they are widely , perhaps indefinitely applicable .
7 A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business .
8 Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion .
9 Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A.
10 ‘ The other vital thing for me is that I keep on learning .
11 Another part of year 10 is that you go on work experience for two weeks .
12 So all I ask is that you go on the way you have started . ’
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